The Eiffel Tower has gone green. As part of an ongoing facelift of the iconic structure, a New York company this month installed two wind turbines about 400 feet up on the tower, above the second ...

Online misinformation about the longevity of wind turbines has muddied the waters regarding their actual lifespan. The truth ...

Another dramatic chapter is unfolding in a nearly two-year fight over wind turbines in northwest Missouri.NextEra Energy has constructed two meteorological evaluation towers, or met towers, to measure ...

Building towers for wind turbines 10 times faster and up to twice as tall as today’s conventional technology is something for prime-time news. The new technology can help speed up the deployment of ...

All systems were go Nov. 6 as students from the manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology/packaging science department raised three wind turbines and one prototype wind turbine. The turbines ...

The American Concrete Institute announces the availability of a new report for concrete industry professionals— ACI ITG-9R-16: Report on Design of Concrete Wind Turbine Towers. This report examines ...

AMES, Iowa – Grant Schmitz, eyes inches from a 6.5-by-12-foot panel of ultra-high performance concrete, studied the smooth surface for tiny cracks. He and other research engineers carefully marked ...

The wheels have begun to turn on an interesting new form of wind turbine in Sweden, with the country’s first wooden power-generation tower now complete. Built from sustainably sourced materials and ...

Wind energy is taking off all over again. This time, literally. In China, a multi-institute research and development project has created a series of large-scale floating turbine prototypes. The helium ...

As part of its “first major face-lift in 30 years,” the Eiffel Tower has a new set of wind turbines. Earlier this year, the New York City–based renewable-energy design firm UGE installed the turbines, ...

I have spent the last 25 years as a scientist for NASA and professor at the University of Georgia, respectively. One of my primary areas of research is on how urban environments affect weather and ...

Con Doolan received funding from the ARC for a discovery grant on wind turbine noise. He also currently received industry funding for research into wind turbines, and an NHNRC grant on the effects of ...